Greek Embassy in London

The atmosphere at the event to mark the creation of the Seferis Office and the Roderick Beaton Reading Room at the Greek Embassy in London last Monday afternoon was wonderful and worthy of Greek-British friendship. Suddenly, "after the speeches, the atmosphere changed. The room went cold, we were all surprised," prominent writer Victoria Hislop, who was at the embassy, told Kathimerini.

The items were returned to the Greek Embassy in London in 2019

In spite of a ban on flights from the UK, introduced on Monday as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Greek authorities on Friday gave the all clear for an Aegean Airlines flight to repatriate 32 Greeks stranded in Britain.

Greek cheese exports to the UK have soared in the last decade, making Britain one of the most important destinations for Greek dairy enterprises.

The front-runner for the European Commission presidency has weighed into a row between the Greek government and the main opposition regarding how Greeks in the United Kingdom will vote in the upcoming European parliamentary elections.

Greek chef has embarked on the ambitious project of introducing Londoners to ancient Greek cuisine and diet.

At “Life Goddess,” his London based restaurant, Louis Chrysostomou aims to present the Greek cuisine as a whole starting from the culinary art handed down to us from ancient Greek literary and philosophical texts.

Greek yoghurt exports to the United Kingdom amounted 28.76 million pounds in the January-November period in 2015, up 24.35 pct from the previous year, ranking Greece second after France in yoghurt supplies to the UK.

The family of a Scottish woman who was found dead off the coast of Crete in 2009 has appealed for the probe into her death to be reopened on the basis of evidence that she may have been a victim of foul play and not of drowning, as the initial investigation had concluded.

By Chryssa Liaggou

In cooperation with the Greek Embassy in London and the ESCP Europe Business School’s Research Center for Energy Management (RCEM), the government in Athens is preparing a major showcase event in the British capital next week to present the blocks to be conceded for hydrocarbon exploration in the Ionian Sea and south of Crete.